chris van hollen: in this cycle? republicans are doing a very good job themselves of beating each other up in these republican primaries. so i don't anticipate us getting involved in those republican primaries. obviously, that's, you know, a decision for people in the states going forward. but, you know, there is clearly a situation on the republican side, a very anti-establishment mood, which is complicating things for for the race. >> do you think that presents any opportunity that anti-establishment mood in republican primaries? do you think there are case where is democrats are going to be facing weak erkan dates than hey might otherwise? >> all i know is as of right now, you have a whole pile of republican primaries in a lot of these states. how they will resolve themselves, i don't know. and i do make it a point never to get in the middle of a republican civil war. but it clear is a factor. we've heard republicans talk about this battle between mcconnell forces and the trump forces and the bannon forces. so you

van hollen: we think we can do both. if you look at our incumbents you've good lot of battle-tested , incumbents and the reason they've been successful, sometimes in politically difficult states is they always focus the people in their states. that has been their north star. we are going to work hard to --p them come up most of all knowing what to do in their states. and we'll look for every pickup opportunity that are out there. there are a number of pickup opportunities. this is also a cycle where we have seen, as in the case of alabama, where no state is safe for a republican senator. kevin: so following up on that, where do you think you can expand the map beyond the races that have already started emerging and establishing? sen. van hollen: we've obviously got to work hard make sure they continue to succeed. then there are eight republican seats. alabama, of course, was a seat that we recently picked up. and all of those eight are going to be in play. we have candidates today in every one of those eight seats with t

chris van hollen: in this cycle? republicans are doing a very good job themselves of beating each other up in these republican primaries. don't anticipate us getting involved in those republican primaries. obviously, that's, you know, a decision for people in those going forward. clearly know, there is a situation on the republican side, anti-republican mood that is complicating things for those senate races. >> live now here on c-span, we ead to the american foreign service association in washington, d.c. for a discussion about how cities the world can fight terrorism recruitment with state department advisor michael duffen. >> good afternoon, welcome to the first monday, the first working monday in january. this is a partnership of three organizations. my name is adam powell, i am the director of washington

mayor, first, i went to senator van hollen and congressman brown. president said during portion of his campaign, one of his efforts would jobs. infrastructure related to that. we have no bills that have been offered by the white house by the president of the united states on either of those subjects. there have been discussions. there have been outlines. very brief, conceptual things no legislation is offered on either of those issues by president of the united states. we're waiting for that. but infrastructure is critical objective of ours. unfortunately what we've done is, we put peter deeply into debt to give paul, the richest person in our country, additional dollars in his or her pocket. that is what we've done. it makes no sense. >> you're absolutely right. we know we have a huge infrastructure deficit locally, statewide around the country. , instead of focusing a good bipartisan response, measures helping folks doing well with major corporations at expense of virtually everybody else and every other priority. this will add $15,900 a year -- f

van hollen: we think we can do both. you have got a lot of incumbents, and the reason they have been successful in difficult states is they are always focused on the people in their state. there hathat has been their northstar. we will work very hard to help them. most of all in knowing what to do in their states. but we will also look for every opportunity out there, and there are a number of pickup opportunities. and this is also a cycle where we have seen, as in the case in alabama, where no state is safe for republicans. >> following up on that, where do you think you can have that beyond the raises that are -- races that are already emerging? we have got to: work hard to make sure that they continue to succeed. there are eight republican seats. alabama was of course a seat that we recently picked up. and all of those eight going to be in play. we have candidates today in every one of those eight seats, with the exception of mississippi, where i have talked to some very strong candidates. all of them are strong poten

senator van hollen, i appreciate your time. thank you for coming on. >>> up ahead, a garden state shake-up. chris christie out and a if you governor vows to fight president trump at every turn. we'll talk to governor phil murphy in his first national interview since his inauguration. to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections a

i also agree with my colleague senator van hollen. thank you that you are attempting to be an objective source for information for modeling and anticipation and projecting the impact of potential legislation. i want to talk about how to achieve that. first of all, this is one of the most partisan committees that i have seen. i was on judiciary, it is partisan as well, but this is a partisan committee and unnecessarily so. it is partisan because of the budget process. members on the other side of the committee, several members, senator whitehouse, senator kaine, members on this side, we all agree the process is broken and it creates a situation because the budget is not a law, it is a resolution. the majority crams down the throats of the minority their political statement of what they think they should do on spending. you get caught in the middle. this will change at some poin in the future. they will be in the majority, we will be in the majorit no one will like it. as is a broken process and we need to fix it. you play an important

next the senator van hollen. one of the things i was going to ask you about is continuing work of the congressional budget office that we heard from the pentagon spokesperson a few weeks ago. we've now had four results that has negative consequences for the defense. does goinges from cr cr meet yor work harder and what are the consequences of it? >> it does make things harder. we've actually put off some things that we have like computer things. we will have to curtail and move down a few spots and cancel some training and travel survey does have a consequence for us. >> in terms of the planning doesn't make the planning harder or lead to some inefficiencies in the ability to win we need to hire? >> yes it does. >> the good news is that congress reauthorized the program for six years and as it was referenced the congressional budget office estimated that it is actually saved money and i think you said $6 billion compared to the earlier baseline is that right? your analystsng of savings wasnt a result of the cost

senator van hollen. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you, mr. pruitt, i appreciate the exchange you had on the chesapeake bay, and i'm hoping you will prevail on the administration to put the $73 million or more in for the bay program. you would agree, would you not, that it's important that epa's decisions be based on the facts, be faced on merit, be faced on the law, and not on politics? would you agree with that? >> absolutely, senator. in the sense that we do rule-making, we have to make a record. >> i don't mean just that. in your procurement, contracts, isn't it based on law and the merits, not on politics? >> i believe generally what you're saying, yes. >> generally? okay, it disturbed me to find this report back in december. it was headlined epa contractor has spent past year scouring the agency for anti-trump officials. in exchange with one of my colleagues on the republican side who asked you about epa employees and morale, you said you didn't think there was any reason or bad morale, are you familiar with this article, a "new york tim

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yes. >> senator chris van hollen of maryland, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: as we'ven hearing, one issue that's sure to be part of immigration talks in coming weeks is the president's proposed border wall with mexico. the controversial wall, a hallmark of mr. trump's campaign, has yet to materialize. there's still no funding from congress. the effectiveness of eight prototypes is still being evaluated. from pbs station kpbs in san diego, jean guerrero examines whether the wall will ever be >> build that wall! >> reporter: president trump promised to build a wall. here on this dirt patch of land in southeastern san diego are the main products of those promises: eight prototypes of various colors and materials. each towers about 30 feet high, three times the height of the existing border fence just south of them. it's been three months since they were unveiled, with the acting deputy commissioner for u.s. customs and border protection, ron vitiello, lauding their scale. >> my biggest impression is how big they are. >> reporter: the prototypes cost taxpayers $20 million.

it was van hollen, the rookie senator though longtime house member from maryland who was last speaking forcefully to chuck schumer. the republican gathering is so interesting because flake and corker, two of the other republican scouts who went over to the enemy camp, are now joining graham. you've got portman there but cotton of arkansas, who has called more of this tune than a lot of people would probably like in these past couple of days, and he's become part of the problem in getting to finish, getting to a solution. now it's corker and flake talking. garrett? >> reporter: and graham and cotton were going back and forth at each other today through the media. >> yep. >> reporter: when i interviewed lindsey graham this morning, he said tom cotton was turning into the steve king of the senate, a reference to probably the single most hardline member of congress on immigration. he says his immigration views, cotton's immigration views were a nonstarter. and, brian, tom cotton does not talk to television cameras. today he sought out the cameras to respond to lindsey graham. said the diff

v it was van hollen last speaking forcefully to chuck schumer. flake and corker, two of the other scouts who went over to the enemy camp are now joining graham. you have portman there but do cocker of arkansas has called more of this tune than most people probably would have liked in the past couple of days and he's been part of the problem getting to a finish, getting to a solution. >> and graham and cotton were going back and forth at each other through the media. when i interviewed lindsey graham this morning, he said tom cotton was turning into the steve king member of the senate. he said his immigration views, cotton's immigration views were a nonstarter. and tom cotton does not talk to television cameras. today he sought out the cameras. back to the idea that cotton is more in line with what the president ran on, candidate trump's immigration policy and cotton intends to hold the president to these but if lindsey graham and tom cotton or talking about the contours of anything that has to do with immigration, again, something is in the works

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chris van hollen, (d) maryland: there is lots to get done and we can do itbehind the scenes - senators working to come to an agreement on a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline.sen. dan sullivan, (r) alaska: the decision whether or not the government's going to be shut down is really in the hands of senator schumer and his colleaguespresident trump delaying a weekend trip to mar-a-lago for some last minute dealmaking.friday afternoon inviting senate minority leader chuck schumer to the white house for a private meeting.sen. chuck schumer, (d) minority leader: we made some progress but we still have a good number of disagreements. the discussions will continue. trump seemingly hopeful after the meeting - tweeting it was an "excellent preliminary meeting"the big sticking point for democrats - immigration. they want protection for the so called 'dreamers'but the republican leadership says those talks should come later... daca won't expire until march at the earliest sen. mitch mcconnell, (r) majority leader: apparently, they believe that the issue of

you're teaming up with chris van hollen, a democrat, and what is your goal, and what do you intend toa russian part two two a. in my view, they didn't just favor a candidate. it was the discord. my bigger problem, we can only do what has happened in the past, looking back retroactivel retroactively. the biggest or to americans electoral system and quite frankly america at large is not russia, it's china. china has basically infiltrated its way into all of our technologies across the supply chain. they make anything the russians can do look like child's play, that include stealing secrets, that includes influence individuals in american government to a lot of different things. that includes potentially interfering in an election. the biggest thing moving forward is not the russians, exactly the chinese. they are much larger with a lot more capability and more money, and that's one of the things i thought about when getting involved in this legislation. >> laura: in this "new york times" piece that came out tonight that the administration is going to be reviewing possible plans to expan

vice president biden, to be a senatorore specific puto and van hollen would -- youns on russia, might be familiar with the legislation. these are sweeping sanctions. do you think this is an theopriate step and that consequences have been adequately fought through? n: it issident bide an appropriate step. i do not believe the failure in doing that equals the failure to take these steps. in terms of our interest. were i in the senate, i would be supporting that. >> right here in the front. i will try to get as many as i can. nks, richard. i would argue russia's attitude to the united states changed not because of nato expansion, but because of the iraqi war expansion. the middle east is one area where russia seems to be doing quite well. it has excellent relations with all the parties in the region, unlike the united states. advice on howour we deal with russia and the middle east, in particular syria. vice president biden: you had war, but youaq also had libya, which russia resented, which they thought was something of a bait and switch. they thought they were signing on to something m

joining us to talk about this whole situation right now is senator chris van hollen, democratic fromand. senator, thanks so much for being with us. >> good to be here. >>ig now, senator, are you a yes or no vote for this temporary extension of government funding? >> well, we don't even know what the proposal is right now, john. as you just indicated, the president of the united states has said the long-term fix to the children's health insurance program should not be part of this agreement. >> if it was there, what we do know is any protections for d.r.e.a.m.ers is not part of the bill. the first part of the question, without protections for d.r.e.a.m.ers could you vote for extension of government funding? >> i cannot support a bill, continuing resolution that does not deal with funding for community health centers, does not deal with the opioid crisis by providing real resources, that doesn't help our veterans and doesn't deal with the daca issue. right now as i see it, the president of the united states, whether by design or shear incompetence, is taking this country into a governm

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chris van hollen ran for the senate instead of moving up in the house. xavier becerra, instead of hanging around and trying to move up the ladder, he went off and became the attorney general of california. i think you are seeing a little bit of a way for democrats to file.ithin the rank and he is a good face of the party right now. when i give someone else a shot like that? host: as far as the creation of , do we knowpeech who is going to write it for him? guest 1: his chief speechwriter is stephen miller. his staff secretary is the man by the name of rob porter. he has been heavily involved. what usually happens is you have a lot of different cap and agencies that provide input, so it is a government-wide process in terms of receiving information, what cabinet departments are suggesting the president highlight, all of that is taken in, whittled down. as i understand it, there have been several drafts of the speech and the president has been providing input into what he would like to say. it does not strike me as being on the order of president obama in

and just a brief time ago, i spoke with democratic senator chris van hollen., you voted to reopen the american government, keep it up and running, why? for a couple of reasons, number one i always wanted to keep the government up and running. the question was under what conditions and what circumstances and we now have a commitment from the republicans, not only to address a lot of the key budget issues, like funding for community centres, tackling the opioid epidemic, but a guarantee of a vote a little after three weeks from now on a bipartisan deal to deal with the dreamers, and thatis deal to deal with the dreamers, and that is something the republicans had refused to do. they had refused to allow the moxey to work. with it we have a strong bipartisan majority to do that, is we think we have. that is an important step. right, but even if your republican collea g u es but even if your republican colleagues in the senate have agreed to address the issue of dakar commute have no agreement to get the deal you want on protecting those young immigrants and republ

. >> on sunday, house minority whip steny hoyer and chris van hollen will hold a town hall meeting with constituents meeting -- constituents talking about tax reform. you can also follow live on c-span.org or listen live on our radio app. >> next, a look at the potential impact of a proposed wall along the length of the u.s.-mexico border, and relations between the two countries. speakers include a texas congressman. this is just over one hour. [video clip] ♪ ♪ >> i thank you for coming this morning to join us about a conversation about the wall, border security, many issues such as immigration, the use -- u.s. economy, security issues surrounding the wall here i want to thank our fantastic communications team for preparing the video that you just saw, and also further images that you will see. president trump started 2018 by again renewing his call for the wall on the u.s. southern border with mexico. this was one of his key campaign promises, at the time calling for a structure running the entire length of the 2000-mile u.s.-mexico border, and arguing that mexico will pay the price ta

. >> senator van hollen. >> thank you. appreciate the exchange you had with senator carden. you would agree would you not that it is important that epa's decisions be based on facts, based on merit, based on the law and not on politics. would you agree with that? >> absolutely. in the sense as we do rule making, we have to build a record. >> i don't mean just that. in procurement, contracts, wouldn't you agree it needs to be based on law and merits, not politics. >> i believe generally. >> generally? because it disturbed me to find this report back in december, it was head lienlined epa scouring anti-trump officials. one of my colleagues asked you about epa employees and morale, said you don't think there's reason for bad morale. are you familiar with the article, "new york times" piece? >> i'm not, senator. >> you should be. senator whitehouse and senator harris have written you a letter about it that you haven't responded to. what the article stated was that the epa contract that on a no bid basis with an entity called definers public affairs, are you familiar with that. >

senator chris van hollen is the guest this week. he is the chair of the senate campaign committee for the democrats as we move into the midterm elections in 2018. we want to welcome back a long time c-span friday. a quick note, we are breaking our phone lines down differently. if you are currently insured through the affordable care act, inshore through medicaid and medicare and uninsured. let me begin with the affordable care act -- what has or hasn't been repealed? hast: the only piece that been repealed was the individual mandate. the requirement that must be all have insurance or pay a fine along with taxes. that doesn't happen next year until 2019 so this year the mandate is in effect. i think people are confused about that. the healthelse in law is still there. host: if people vote to , what did they see and what were they able to obtain? guest: they were able to obtain state except every for where there was uncertainty. say that they don't have any idea what is going to happen. and so they will bow out. to sign upho went were

that strikes me as constructive, but i and my colleague on the committee from maryland, senator van hollen, have legislation called the brink act which i think you are aware and which your staff has been very helpful. this would require new additional round of sanctions against financial institutions that are facilitating business with north korea. i think this is very important, and i hope you'll support our effort to get that done. it came out of this committee with unanimous vote, i believe. secretary mnuchin: thank you.se senator heitkamp. senator heitkamp: thank you, mr. secretary, for coling. -- a couple follow-on secretary, for coming. just a couple follow-on points. no one wants to limit the ability of the economy to thrive. i think it's critically important we make the public understand that we simply went the bill from designating automatically to basically allowing the regulators to designate someone -- some entity as a sifi. we haven't abandoned that process so i want to make that point. also want to make another point. i think it's fascinating when people here cite c.b.o. stat

van hollen: thank you, madam president. let me start by agreeing with the senator from utah that we should extend the children's health insurance program. we should do it for six years. and i want to commend the senator from utah for his work in creating the chip program along with senator kennedy. goo÷ good work and we need to extend it. we also have an obligation on a bipartisan basis to get together and put together a budget for the united states of america. we're now four months into the current fiscal year. and we do not have a budget that provides the resources necessary for the department of defense. we do not have a budget that provides resources to fight the opioid epidemic. a lot of talk here in the united states senate about fighting the opioid epidemic, but no resources to do that. we need a budget to get that done. so, yes, we should extend the children's health insurance program. we need to do that. but we also need to do our job which we should have done back in october 1, the first day of this fiscal year, a

. >> i would like to welcome senator van hollen with the committee, you and senator cardin. since my mom grew up in maryland in dundof, maryland, summer job, two of you from maryland, this history now we make sure that the chesapeake bay is fully protected. i know that -- >> mr. chairman, i will say no more. [laughter]. >> welcome to the committee. we're now going to hear from our witnesses. we'll start with a introduction in a second from senator inhofe. we have mr. scott robinson. miss julie ufner, associate legislative director of the national zooks of counties. william friedman, chairman of association of port authorities, nicole carter national resource policy expert for and steve cochran, coastal protection, restore the mississippi delta coalition. i believe senator cassidy will be here to introduce mr. cochran. if i could start by senator inhofe please introduce our guests. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate that. having presence of scott robinson here. he has spent a lot of time in this business. we became good friends. i have to say one thing, building a littl

. >> we had a very good meeting in your office, it's great to see senator van hollen here on a committeehat gets a lot of stuff done. i want to mention on the issue of marine debris that we talked about wanting to look at opportunities for the pa to play an important role. it is a very strong bipartisan support on the issue which is a huge issue. it impacts my state in rhode island in every state in the country. another is follow-up for the meeting. i appreciate you working on those issues. also the chairman measured some of the things that you have done in your focus on the confirmation hearing and rule of law process which is important you may decisions recently and i think your focus on the process. and on the lotus rule. some of the complaints oppose this, there are 30 states that sued the federal government. there is no process, it was a huge federal overreach. i appreciate your drawing it back. you have the vast majority of the states and citizens. another one that's important, glad you highlighted it in your opening testimony. you mention lead with regard to water infrastructure,

senator van hollen. >> thank you mr. chairman. and to the ranking member, and congratulations, mr. powell, on your nomination. you know, both your immediate predecessors of the bed, chairman yellen and chairman bernanke repeatedly testified before the congressional committees about their concern, about, the impact of the rising debt, national debt on the economy. here's what chairman bernanke told the joint economic committee in june of 2012. he said large deficits and debt over long a long period of time interest rates above levels where they normally would be an crowd out private investment, and are bad for growth and productivity. they also may involve borrowing from foreign lenders which is also a drain on current using. do you agree with his statement? >> yes, i do. >> and here's what chairman yellen said this year on july 12 before the house committee on financial services expressing her concerns about rising debt. she said current spending and taxation decisions will lead to an unsustainable debt situation with rising interest rates and declining investment in the united sta

chris van hollen ran for the senate instead of moving up in the house.avier becerra, instead of hanging around and trying to move up the ladder, he went off and became the attorney general of california. i think you are seeing a little bit of a way for democrats to file.ithin the rank and he is a good face of the party right now. when i give someone else a shot like that? host: as far as the creation of , do we knowpeech who is going to write it for him? guest 1: his chief speechwriter is stephen miller. his staff secretary is the man by the name of rob porter. he has been heavily involved. what usually happens is you have a lot of different cap and agencies that provide input, so it is a government-wide process in terms of receiving information, what cabinet departments are suggesting the president highlight, all of that is taken in, whittled down. as i understand it, there have been several drafts of the speech and the president has been providing input into what he would like to say. it does not strike me as being on the order of president obama in th

van hollen: mr. president. the presiding officer: the mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. president. i wanted to start my remarks today by focusing on a serious threat to our national security, and that is north korea's niewrm program, -- nuclear program, both its nuclear weapons program and its nuclear program. the u.s. must get north korea to engage in meaningful discussions with the goal of denuclearizing the korean peninsula. that's why senator toomey and i introduced the brink act. and i was pleased to see changing of the guard here at the desk with the senator pennsylvania having been the presiding officer and the senator from colorado taking over. the senator from colorado has also been very deeply involved in this issue to try to make sure we address the threat of the north korea program. the brink act is bipartisan legislation. it passed unanimously out of the banking committee back on november 7. it imposes very tough sanctions on north korea and just as importantly has enforcement mechanisms to make sure that any financial institutions anywhere in the world who are not coo

. >> here on c-span, newsmakers his neck with democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. then a look at the relationship between the press and the presidency. that is followed by president trump and republican leaders holding a news conference at camp david to talk about the congressional agenda. at 8:00, our conversation with heinrich meyer on cue and day. -- q&a. greta: this week on "newsmakers," congressman chris hollen, democrat from maryland and i want to you thank you for being here. we have kevin robillard who is with "politico" and sean sullivan with "the washington post."

want to acknowledge the fact the legislation that was introduced -- i join my colleagues senator van hollen, feinstein, and others that will provide a legislative effect, s. 23144, the secure act. i am pleased that the outline of the durbin-graham compromise legislation includes relief for t.p.s. recipients. the legislation would make changes to the diversity visa lottery program and reallocate half the annual visas to recipients of t.p.s. that would amount to about 27,000 visas annually. under the draft t.p.s. recipients would maintain legal status and work authorization while awaiting visas. this would give t.p.s. recipients from deportations, green cards and ultimately a pathway to citizenship. after t.p.s. backlog is clear, which could take roughly a decade to do given the 300,000-plus recipients of t.p.s. in the united states today, the annual visas would be aloe caughted to nation nations- allocated to nations on priori priority. the department of homeland security has placed termination dates on t.p.s. for those from el salvador and haiti and has extended the deadline for decision in